Emperor Qin

After putting His Majesty back in the guest house and settling down, Yan Jiang didn't continue to join in the excitement of the county guard's house, but went to see the blast furnace.

After a few days of rush work, the blast furnace has been repaired. It is divided into two floors, with a tuyere on the upper and lower sides to supply air. Yan Jiang added wooden gears to the bellows to connect the pedals, and made a foot-operated air supply device, telling the villagers who come and go to just step on the cones. , food can also be baked in the nearby hot oven, free of charge.

This kind of structure is very rough, and the untreated gears don't even bite evenly, and the gear wears out after stepping on it, but Yan Jiang is only doing short-term work, and it's almost enough to deal with it for ten and a half months.

Many villagers who are reluctant to part with firewood are very willing. They don’t have flour, but putting wheat into it and roasting it into popcorn is also a good delicacy, or putting clay pots in it to cook rice is also very good, and many pots can be roasted and cooked together. But only one or two people are needed, which is far more cost-effective than starting a fire at home, so many people use it here to save some firewood.

After starting the furnace with a carbon fire and adding iron ore powder, what is needed is to wait, and once the fire is started, the fire cannot be stopped, otherwise the molten iron in the furnace will cool and harden, and the furnace will easily be destroyed when it is re-melted.

Yan Jiang saw the afternoon from the early morning, and managed to get these people familiar with the speed of the air supply and the maintenance of the temperature. He wanted to continue watching, but a soldier came to report that Mr. Li Xin needed to see him urgently.

Thinking of the strictness of the ten sticks in the morning, he was afraid that he would be unable to get out of bed, so he carefully ordered one of the most astute soldiers among them, and told Li Xin that there would be a big reward for watching the stove, and then went to see Li Xin.

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"Brother Jiang, you are here, brother Jiang, sit down quickly, my God, I have also been included in the imperial guards, brother Jiang, please pinch me!" Li Xin, who was lying on the couch, wanted to get up excitedly, but he couldn't help it. He grinned his teeth and lay back, the stars in his eyes were about to fall out, "They are both generals, Meng Tian and Meng Yi are only a few years older than me, and now one is a general and the other is a doctor Yes. But even the two of them invited me to enter the court, but now His Majesty personally summoned me to enter the palace, what a different opinion! I will definitely be a great general of the country in the future!"

Entering the Li family's courtyard, this person didn't look like a dead body at all, so it was nothing to worry about.

So Yan Jiang could only nod his head to deal with it, and said in his heart that it was true, but you guessed the beginning but not the ending.

"It's just, that, Brother Jiang, my land..." Li Xin suddenly hesitated, feeling very embarrassed, "I'm afraid I can't plant anything for you."

"What's going on?" How could this work, Yan Jiangxin said that I had already started to germinate the alfalfa seeds, so you came here to punish me.

"I also just heard from my grandfather," Li Xin said in a low voice, "The rebels in Tunliu City will be taken to Didao to open up wasteland. In the next year or two, Didao's food supply will probably be tight, and there may be no space for you. Planting those weird things—well, of course, I like your things very much, if you want, why not go to Xianyang with me, there is plenty of land for you to plant."

"Rebels in the settlement? Are there many?" Yan Jiang frowned. As for going to Xianyang, it's fine, the King of Qin is not easy to mess with.

"I heard that there are [-] households." Li Xin looked around before talking about important national affairs: "Previously, His Majesty's younger brother—that is, Chang'an Jun Chenggu and General Bi rebelled in Tunliu City. After being pacified by the king, General Bi and tens of thousands of soldiers were all beheaded. According to Qin law, the families of tens of thousands of soldiers would be reduced to servants and concubines. The rebels are guilty of the same crime, their property will be collected into the national treasury, and the living will be exiled to our Longxi to open up wasteland."

He thought for a while, and repeated what his grandfather said: "Tun stay in the easternmost part of Daqin, and Longxi is in the westernmost place, thousands of miles apart, and now it's almost winter, and the weak will die on the road, even so In the end, there were 4 to [-] people who came here, and it took time and effort to open up wasteland, even though it is only [-] hectares of land, hundreds of people can still live.”

This is too scary!

Yan Jiang did some calculations, now the eastern part of the state of Qin is in Shanxi, the western part is in Gansu, separated by Shaanxi Province, even a straight line is separated by at least five or six hundred kilometers, not to mention that the Loess Plateau is still beautiful, how can there be a straight line to give People go.

"It may take half a year for them to come here." Yan Jiang said uncertainly.

"Up to three months." Li Xin shook his head. He had seen many prisoners who were exiled and knew the relationship. "They are already criminals. That's really the descendants will have to stand up."

That's tyranny.

Yan Jiang thought to himself that these civilians were clearly disasters from heaven. Who is Lord Chang'an?Now they have no land or houses, and they have to drag their families and be exiled to the border without houses or rice. How can they survive?

"Then so many people, can you handle it?" Yan Jiang asked worriedly. It's not a problem whether to plant or not. It's a big deal to change the place, but it's almost winter, so what should we do if so many people rush into Longxi?

"Why can't I handle it? It's not the first time that Di Daoguan can become Longxi County. Isn't it so easy for people to come here?" Li Xin disagreed. He grew up here and saw a lot, "After they came here , will first sell the least-needed people in the family as servants and concubines, and then many people will build a shack together to escape the winter. After some people freeze to death, they will open up wasteland by themselves. According to the law of Qin, one or two pieces of land will be distributed to Even if they settled down here."

Yan Jiang nodded slightly, feeling a little preoccupied.

"To be honest, you and I should go to Xianyang. There are so much fun and delicious food there, and you can have everything you want," Li Xin still didn't give up, pulling his sleeves to comfort him, "You are so good at riding and arching. Follow me, and within a few years, people will be able to vote for land, not to mention being a prince of ten thousand households, but being a general is enough!"

Yan Jiang said goodbye while saying he didn't dare to act. Li Xin still wanted to drag him, but he pinched his wrist and let go with pain.

Back in the room, the master just woke up, thinking that the master didn't eat anything last night, Yan Jiang even ground the beef jerky with his own hands, and boiled a bowl of fragrant beef soup to supplement it.

The master was in a good mood, with the big wings behind his back, he was eating while listening to him quietly, as if he was waiting for praise.

"...The civilians in Tunliu City were exiled to the border like this, it is also extremely tragic," Yan Jiang said when he heard the news from Li Xinna, and sighed, "I didn't feel deeply when I heard that the Great Qin was brutal, but When I saw it today, I really didn't leave any room for it, people are obviously the most precious resource, how could they be wasted like this?"

The master's speed of eating meat soup slowed down visibly to the naked eye, and there was a dangerous breath in his big eyes. This is treason!

Yan Jiang thought it was hot, and even blew it, sighing at the same time: "This has disrupted my plan, but there is a lack of people for what I want to do, if I can think of a way, it may be an opportunity ..."

While he was thinking, the speed of feeding gradually slowed down: "I can build more blast furnaces and make this place an iron smelting place. It happens to be connected to the Wei River, and ironware can go straight to Xianyang. If I have money, I can buy more wheat noodles. Live more people, support them to open up wasteland until the opened up wasteland can feed them, and at the same time let them grow the good seeds I gave, among other things, alfalfa and cotton are very suitable for planting here."

He asked the old farmers here, and he knew that there is plenty of sunshine and mild climate here, which is a typical temperate continental climate. He can plant alfalfa quickly before harvesting it. Not only can this stuff be eaten by animals, but it is also very good for people to eat when they are hungry. .

Thinking of this, he slowly said: "When the spring of next year begins, the newly opened land can be planted with alfalfa first. This kind of plant with nodules does not need nitrogen fertilizer, and can grow on any land. The land can be grazed, and the manure of cattle and sheep can be used to fertilize the land. Planting wheat again will inevitably increase the yield, and cattle and sheep can also be exchanged for a large amount of wheat, as for calves and lambs, you can go to the Yuezhi tribe on the Qilian Mountains to buy them, don’t you think so, Your Majesty?”

The Hexi Corridor in Gansu is not a semi-arid area in the future, but a land with abundant water and grass. His Majesty is particularly satisfied with the goat meat there.

His Majesty looked at him indifferently, without answering.

"Ah, we passed by Yueshi's place earlier and we seemed to do a fairy dance for Xiao Huang. I'm afraid King Yueshi has some opinions on me. It's best for the county guard to come forward to discuss this matter." But the county guard probably won't listen to his opinion. , Yan Jiang suddenly felt distressed. If he had known that the arrow would not have shot King Yuezhi’s leopard fur hat when he was running away, but his horse is so cute and cute, how could he shoot an innocent one because of a human dispute?

"By the way, Li Xin still clamored for me to be his retainer, saying that I could be a general. At that time, I was thinking..." Yan Jiang told His Majesty this matter as a joke, and he didn't find it very unpleasant at all. His Majesty suddenly stood upright, and just smiled lightly, "Where can I be a general? The key is that King Qin of his family is notoriously narrow-minded. It will be difficult to go to another house after entering his house. He instigated him to death—hey, let go of your claws, you have something to say."

His Majesty turned a deaf ear, the claws on the servant's thigh tightened more and more, and his anger swelled.Do you still want to go somewhere else?Which one is the other house, I will destroy it now!